With Howard Dean the dems have formally graduated from "disarray" to "debacle", with "irretrievable disaster" just around the corner.
Posted on 07/05/2005 5:11:42 PM PDT by texasleslie
Detroit, MI:Evidence suggests that Newsweek and Senator Dick Durbin contributed to the death of American soldiers in Iraq. On May 9th, Newsweek published an article that described desecration of the Qur’an by American military personnel. The Newsweek allegations were broadcast throughout the Middle East by the Al Jazeera news service. The accusations of defilement caused riots in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of fifteen people and dozens of injuries. The Newsweek story was ultimately proven to be untrue.
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) followed this incident on June 14th with comments about prisoners held at the military complex at Guantanamo Bay. Speaking specifically about the practice of playing loud rap music to detainees and turning the air conditioning up in their cells, Durbin stated that “If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime--Pol Pot or others--that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.” Senator Durbin’s comparison of American soldiers to Russian Gulags and Nazi Germany was denounced by both Democrats and Republicans. Combat deaths of American soldiers in Iraq spiked after both of these incidents.
According to CNN, the months following the November 2004 military offensive in Fallujah saw a drop in American combat deaths. From January 2004 to the end of November, 2004, an average of 60 American soldiers per month died as a result of clashes with terrorists in Iraq. After the November Fallujah offensive, the number of combat deaths of American military personnel dropped to an average of 43 per month. This trend held from December of 2004 to April of 2005. May and June saw an increase in battle fatalities. The number jumped from the average of 43 to 69 for May and 67 in June. This increase in battlefield deaths coincides with the Newsweek story and the comments by Senator Durbin. Both incidents were covered heavily by Al Jazeera and other Middle Eastern news sources.
We could not reach Senator Durbin himself for comment, but a representative at his Washington D.C. office referred to the idea that the Congressman’s remarks had any effect on combat deaths as “ridiculous”, and called the correlation between the comments and a spike in violence a coincidence. Newsweek would neither comment on the subject nor return our calls.
Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich said of the Durbin comments being broadcast by Al Jazeera that “You cannot have a public official quoted throughout the world by our enemies describing the U.S. in these terms -- it puts every young American in uniform at risk.” Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist went a step further in his denunciation of his colleague’s words. Saying that Durbin’s statement was “anti-American and only fuels the animus of our enemies. . . .It is this type of language that they use to recruit others to be car bombers; suicide attackers; hostage takers; and full-fledged jihadists.” Criticism of Newsweek by Conservatives was equally harsh.
The opinions on this issue are divided strictly along party lines. Interpretation of the combat deaths and how they coincide with the Newsweek article and Senator Durbin’s comments will undoubtedly also be mired in partisan politics.
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I pray that Durbin develops a conscience, and that it tortures him for the rest of his miserable life.
Can Durbin be charged with accessory to crime?
Why is he granted a "Get out of jail card"?
Where are the headlines demanding he be brought up on charges of treason?
Yes.......... if not yet, his words are poison to our men!
Durbin deserves a trial, and then a big oak tree and a strong rope.
Of course they did. Will they pay in any way for what in fact is accessory to murder? Heck no!
Vallandigham's seditious rhetoric became so volatile that General Ambrose Burnside, commander of the geographical area where Vallandigham was operating, had him arrested.
Lincoln realized that prosecuting Vallandigham for treason was a no-win situation, yet he had to do something to stop Vallandigham from further hurting the Union cause and getting Union soldiers killed.
Lincoln's solution? He had Vallandigham escorted into Confederate held territory, where he could be with those who Vallandigham held in his sympathy.
I wonder how much Durbin would enjoy being escorted to the Iranian border?
Sounds good to me
((I wonder how much Durbin would enjoy being escorted to the Iranian border?))
Sounds good to me
Durbin should resign or be recalled.
Exactly right...If DICK cared one lick for our troops, he'd never have uttered those words on the Senate floor...he's a POS..
Stupidy is a condition, not a crime. The real crime was committed by the voters of Illinois that voted this dunce into office.
Stupidity is a condition, not a crime. The real crime was committed by the voters of Illinois that voted this dunce into office.
In my opinion they did.
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